The weather in New York City on Sept. 11, 2001, was beautiful — a clear and pleasant late-summer day that was marred by the smoke of burning jet fuel and billowing clouds of pulverized dust.
Yet mere hours before terrorists flew hijacked jetliners into the twin towers, carrying out the worst terrorist attack ever on United States soil, the weather was turbulent – even ominous.
On Monday, Sept. 10, a series of thunderstorms rumbled through New York City, and hundreds of miles to the east of the city, a massive hurricane loomed off the coast.
